Washing-machine.



PATENTBD JULYZI, 1903.

W. S. BARAGER. WASHING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 24. 1903.

NO MODEL.

a Nonms warns co. PHOTO-UTNO. WASMINGTOK4 D c PATENT Patented. July 21, 1903.

OFFICE.

WINFIELD SCOTT BARAG ER, OF HUNT, NEW YORK.

WASHING- MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 734,154, dated July 21, 1903.

Application filed March 24, 1903.

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, WINFIELD SooTT BARA- GER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hunt, in the county of Livingston and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Washing-Machines; and Ido hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon, which'form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to that class of washing-machines in which the water or other liquid is sucked and forced through the clothes by vertically-reciprocating pounders.

The object of the invention is to produce an improved device of that kind characterized by strength and simplicity and ease and effectiveness of operation.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1 and 2 are side elevations at right angles, respectively. Fig. 3 is a top plan view.

Referring specifically to the drawings, 6 in dicates a central standard having at the bottom a supporting-cone 7. This cone is adapted to rest with its broad base on the clothes in a tub, and its size and shape are such that it affords an adequate support for the machine. Pivoted at its middle to the top of the standard is a rocking beam 8, having at each end the handles 9.

A pair of pounders are indicated at 10, preferably kidney-shaped, as shown, so as to substantially surround the central standard, and thus reach clothes all around the same with little turning of the apparatus.

The rocking beam and the pounders are Serial No. 149,347. (No model.)

bars 13, which are crossed and firmly fixed to the central standard.

The pounders are hollow, as may be understood, and the tops thereof are curved or dished to give strength.

In operation the clothes to be washed are placed in Water under the machine in a tub, and an up-and-down movement is given the pounders by means of the beam, whereby the water is sucked and forced through the clothes and effectively removes dirt therefrom.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. Ina washing-machine, the combination with a standard, and a rocking beam at the top and lobed pounders beside the bottom thereof, of double connectingrods looped through the beams and joined at their ends to the lobes of the pounders, substantially as described.

2. In a washing-machine, the combination with a standard, and a rocking beam at the top and a pair of pounders at the bottom.

WINFIELD SCOTT BARAGER.

Witnesses:

O. A. NORTON, GEO. W. SWIFT. 

